22.-No steam vessel shall be worked on any part of the Feeder Canal, or on the River Avon between Hanham and Netham, at a greater speed than shall be directed by the harbour master. In the absence of any direction by him the speed shall in no case exceed four miles an hour. When two or more steam vessels are about to meet, each vessel must shut off steam at least one hundred yards before meeting.

23. All vessels resorting to the harbour shall use fenders to the satisfaction of the harbour master, and no fender shall be used that will not float in the water.

24. The speed of any steamer plying into or from the harbour when passing any dredge or other craft employed in the execution of any works in the harbour, or in the execution of any works in the river Avon authorised by the Bristol Dock Act, 1865, shall be slackened so as to prevent such dredges or craft being interrupted in their employment; and when a red flag or a red light shall be shown on the bank of the river at either end of a station where any such work is being executed, the speed of any steamer shall when abreast of such flag or light be slackened until the station is passed.

30.-No vessel, rope, or chain shall be made fast except to mooring posts, rings, or chains placed for that purpose, or to other vessels.

Any person who shall commit a breach of, or who shall offend against any of the preceding bye-laws, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each and every such breach or offence.

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CALEDONIAN CANAL.

Rules made by the Caledonian Canal Commissioners, by virtue of 43 Geo. III. c. 102, s. 31.

1. No vessel shall enter the sea locks without first coming to anchor, or bringing up in the offing, and making fast to the moorings prepared for that purpose.

7.-No vessel shall obstruct the fairway in the entrance to the sea locks; and no vessel shall be allowed to drop anchor in any situation so as to impede the navigation, nor shall run down, or make fast to, any beacons or guideposts.

8. No vessel shall enter any lock, or pass a swing bridge, with a sail up; and no vessel shall be permitted to pass through any lock without sufficient checking warps ashore, both fore and aft, to the satisfaction of the lockkeeper. It must be the special and invariable duty of the lock-keeper, in every case, to examine the stern-fasts before the sluices are drawn.

9.-No vessel shall enter into any of the locks with too much way, but shall be checked by the mooring palls, when necessary, before entering the lock.

10.-Square-rigged vessels, as they enter and pass locks, must have their sails furled, lower yards peaked, jibbooms, running-bowsprits, outriggers, and spanker-boom run in, spritsail-yard fore and aft, davits topped up, anchors properly stowed on the forecastle, and fenders ready at the bows, to prevent damage to the canal works, as well as to other vessels.

11.-No vessel, in navigating the canal, shall use booms or setting poles, but such as are flat on the bottom, at least three inches diameter. Fenders of junk, broom or brushwood, are strictly prohibited; but cork and fir fenders may be used.

12. The master or other person having charge of any

vessel navigating the canal, shall continue on board, and not intrust the vessel to the crew, especially when passing through any lock or bridge.

13.-Vessels of such dimensions as to be admitted into locks more than one at a time, shall be under the regulation of the lock-keeper, as to the number to be so admitted, and as to waiting for each other; under this limitation, that no vessel shall be detained for another beyond ten minutes at any single lock, or at the rate of ten minutes for each lock in a set of united locks.

14. No vessel shall navigate the canal, or be allowed to enter or pass through any lock or bridge during the night, namely, from half-an-hour after sunset to half-an-hour before sunrise; unless in cases of very clear weather or moonlight, when the lock-keepers may consider it is not attended with any danger to the works. Vessels may also be admitted into or passed out of either of the sea locks at any hour when the lock-keepers shall judge it safe to do so.

15.-As a general rule, vessels are not to be passed through the locks or bridges on Sundays; but in cases of accidental detention or other special cases, of which the superintendents shall judge, the lock and bridge-keepers must pass vessels. One man at least must also be in attendance during the whole of Sunday, at each single lock, or set of connected locks, to watch the lock-gates and sluices, and prevent damage to the works.

16.-All sailing vessels, of whatever description, arriving at any lock or set of locks, in the same or in opposite directions, shall be passed through strictly in the order in which they arrive, either at the head or foot of the respective locks; that is, in so far as consistent with the saving of unnecessary lockage, and subject, moreover, to the power of detaining vessels for one another within the limits already mentioned. An exception to this rule may occasionally arise by reason of a strong and steady wind, when it is evident that vessels can only proceed in one direction ;

in which case the lock-keeper may exercise a discretionary power to pass vessels having the wind in their favour, in preference to those which cannot make head against it. But it is desirable, to avoid disputes, that this power should only be resorted to in very extreme cases, unless with the express consent of the master or other person having charge of the vessel whose proper turn it may be deemed expedient to postpone.

17. The master or other person in charge of a vessel passing along the canal must give place to another vessel which may be going faster, unless within 500 yards of a lock or bridge; in which case no sailing vessel shall be permitted to overtake another.

18. All vessels tracked or towed along the canal shall, when meeting or passed by other vessels that are not so tracked or towed, keep as near as possible to the towingpath side of the canal.

19.-All sailing vessels proceeding with a fair wind along the canal, and meeting in opposite directions any steam vessel, shall, as soon as they come within one hundred yards of such steam vessel, haul in their booms and keep to the right or starboard side; but when overtaken by such steam vessel, shall keep to the left or larboard side, so as to pass one another with ease and safety.

20.-All vessels proceeding through the lakes on the line of the canal or estuaries approaching thereto, when sailing with a fair wind, and falling in with vessels beating to windward, shall alter their course in sufficient time to pass at the distance of at least thirty yards astern of the vessel so beating to windward.

21.-All vessels proceeding through the lakes and estuaries on the line of the navigation, when beating to windward, and meeting on opposite tacks, shall avoid getting foul of each other, by the vessel on the starboard tack keeping to the wind, and the vessel on the larboard tack bearing up, so as to pass easily astern of the other.

22.-No person shall obstruct the passage of the canal, by overloading any vessel, lighter, barge, or boat.

24. No raft shall enter or pass along any part of the canal without special permission; nor shall any raft be navigated after sunset or before sunrise on any pretence whatever. Rafts, in meeting vessels or boats, shall take the off-side of the canal at all times.

25.-No vessel shall be allowed to moor, or remain stationary, in any of the locks, or at any drawbridge, except by special permission, during the day or night.

26. No vessel shall load or deliver in the waste or chamber of any of the locks, or remain longer in the same than is absolutely necessary for passing.

27.-Vessels which are waiting their turn, or otherwise, are not to come too close or crowd the approach to any lock, but must be moored astern of each other on the off side of the canal, so as to allow other vessels to pass out or in conveniently. In like manner, vessels are not to lie or accumulate in the sea lock basins, but must haul out to sea when required to do so.

28. No vessel shall remain in any harbour or basin without one person on board, ready to slacken or haul in ropes when required, in case of other vessels passing, or accidents on board.

32.-No vessel, boat, or raft shall be moored on the tracking-path side of the canal on any pretence whatever, unless where permission is given to load or discharge goods at any particular point.

33.-If any vessel, barge, or raft shall be placed or lie abreast in any part of the canal, or passage belonging thereto, not being moored at both ends; or if any person or persons navigating or having the care of any vessel, barge, or raft shall obstruct the navigation of the canal by misplacing or otherwise conducting such vessel, barge, or raft, and shall not, immediately upon the request of any officer or servant of the commissioners, or of any person